Digby

One of the best bloggers on the left today has absolutely knocked it out of the park with this post indicting the current government and the right for bloviating on and on about American exceptionalism while sanctioning (indeed, even cheerleading for) mass torture of human beings. Really, go read it. Since Billmon left the scene (and he's back now, but mainly with bunches of quotes linking the Bush Administration to the ruling government in Orwell's 1984, not a bad thing but not the in-depth analysis he did in the past), Digby has taken over the mantle as the most eloquent blogger, IMHO.

Here's a brief sample:

As more and more is revealed every day it becomes clear that these incompetents who ignored the warning signs before 9/11, (more proof of which was also revealed today) are going to get a lot more of us killed. I guess that is the price we shall have to pay for allowing ourselves to wallow in political trivia and tabloid sensation during the Clinton years and creating a taste for showbiz politics that encouraged the puerile cartoon reaction to the attacks from our leaders. Our leaders, the people with whom we trusted our very lives, behaved as we wanted them to, as we would expect the man who we'd like to have a beer with to behave --- with simple-minded bloodlust instead of reason.

Really, it's amazing stuff.